Performance Evaluation of 6LoWPAN Gateway Used in Actual Network Environment

Author

Bai Enjian ; Zhang Xiaokui

Author_Institution

Coll. of Inf. Sci. & Technol., Donghua Univ., Shanghai, China

fYear

2012

fDate

7-9 Dec. 2012

Firstpage

1036

Lastpage

1039

Abstract

IPv6 over low-power wireless personal area networks (6LoWPANs) will be a key technology for smart devices such as sensors, smart home, industrial control and even toys to Internet protocol (IP) based networks. But, how to realize 6LoWPAN network connect to IPv6 network? In this paper, we implement a 6LoWPAN gateway that interfaces between them. We provide a performance evaluation of 6LoWPAN gateway used in actual network based on the round trip times, delay variance, packet loss, and the average throughput. These performance tests are executed in various size of payload. The experiment shows that the gateway can realize 6LoWPAN network and IPv6 network interconnection, and it can run well in actual network environment.

Keywords

computer network performance evaluation; internetworking; personal area networks; transport protocols; 6LoWPAN Gateway; IPv6 network interconnection; IPv6 over low-power wireless personal area networks; Internet protocol based networks; actual network environment; delay variance; packet loss; performance evaluation; round trip times; Logic gates; Packet loss; Performance evaluation; Ports (Computers); Sensors; Wireless sensor networks; 6LoWPAN; IPv6; RPL; contiki; gateway; wireless sensor networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Control Engineering and Communication Technology (ICCECT), 2012 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Liaoning

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-4499-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCECT.2012.196

Filename

6413761